So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.

Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.

At Facebook, we're inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television - by simply making communication more efficient, they led to a complete transformation of many important parts of society. They gave more people a voice. They encouraged progress. They changed the way society was organized. They brought us closer together.

We look for people who are passionate about something. In a way, it almost doesn’t matter what you’re passionate about. What we really look for when we’re interviewing people is what they’ve shown an initiative to do on their own.

If you think about companies that were built in Silicon Valley, a lot of them early on were chip companies. And now the companies that are there, like Apple, are much more successful than any of the chip companies were.